Declaration of Independence at the heart of King’s speech

• How is the Declaration of Independence at the heart of King’s speech? What might that say about American reform/protest movements?
What are the elements of the American dream according to Adams?
• Adams asks us to reconsider the American dream. Why? What does he recommend?
• What is the American dream according to Jischke?
• What do you think of the story of his family?
• What do you think of Wiesel’s claim that the US started the war in Iraq for unselfish reasons?
• Wiesel says that racism and anti-Semitism have vanished from American society. What do you think of that assertion?